Blaine Trump

Martha Lindley Blaine Trump (née Beard; born 1948)^[1] is an American socialite. For 25 years she was the wife of real-estate heir Robert Trump. She is an ex-sister in law of U.S. president Donald Trump.

Early life and education

Blaine Trump was born Martha Lindley Blaine Beard,^[1] and grew up in South Carolina, Florida and Alabama. Her father, Joseph Beard,^[2][3] was a top executive at IBM.^[4] Blaine and her family moved to Yokohama due to her father's job when she was ten. There, she attended the International School of the Sacred Heart.^[4] She later graduated from the American School of Paris in Louveciennes. She attended Bennett College in Millbrook, New York, and then^[5] the University of Tokyo before dropping out to marry Peter Retchin.^[6]

Activity

Trump is a trustee of the American Ballet Theatre.^[7]

In 1998, Trump received the Marietta Tree Award for public service from the New York City citizens' committee.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

Blaine Trump has been married and divorced twice. First she was briefly married to Peter Retchin, with whom she had a child in 1978, Christopher Hollister who is a real estate executive.^[6][8]

In 1984 she married Robert Trump, who worked in his property-developer family firm Trump Organization and they were together for 25 years, from 1984 to 2009.^[9] In October 2004, Blaine overdosed on pills and was hospitalized at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, New York after she learned her husband had bought a $3.7 million house on Long Island for his girlfriend, Ann Marie Pallan, who was his secretary for many years.^[10] They were involved in a lengthy divorce battle. The divorce was filed in 2007, went to court in 2008, and they reached a secret settlement in 2010.^[11]

After Robert and Blaine separated, in 2006, after more than 20 years of marriage, they put their 6,500-square-foot, three-unit, three-floor, unfinished co-op residence on the market.^[12]

In 2012, Blaine Trump put her $17.5 million mansion in Millbrook, New York, up for sale.^[13]

In 2017, Blaine Trump and her life partner Steve Simon attended President Donald Trump's inauguration ball in Washington.^[14][15]